Please summarize "Top-Down and Bottom-Up" and explain how that impacts your role as a coach.
Administrators need to provide time, incentives, and shared vision in order to conduct effective professional development. The administrators should be instructional leaders in terms of providing the vision and setting the stage for important initiatives but the content specific and technology coaches must bring that to life through appropriate professional development and support to teachers.
In McKeesport, the incentives offered for teachers to attend PD have made a difference.
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Administrators need to provide time, incentives, and shared vision in order to conduct effective professional development. The administrators should be instructional leaders in terms of providing the vision and setting the stage for important initiatives but the content specific and technology coaches must bring that to life through appropriate professional development and support to teachers.
In McKeesport, the incentives offered for teachers to attend PD have made a difference.